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Map of Hartford. Click for a larger image. 1997 Hartford Grantees Project Summaries

Knox Parks Foundation
Project: Chestnut Street Reclamation

The Chestnut Street Reclamation project will turn a one-acre vacant lot that has been idle for many years into a multi-use green space including a community garden, an outdoor environmental studies area for teachers and students of Quirk Middle School, and a production garden for House of Bread soup kitchen.

Knox Parks Foundation is a Hartford-based non-profit organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of Hartford residents by sponsoring community gardens, job training sessions, school gardening, educational workshops, a library, park rangers, and park advocacy projects. Other partners in the project include the CT Department of Environmental Protection, CT Agriculture Experiment Station, Hartford Community Development Block Grant, CT Department of Labor, U.S. Forest Service, and the Hartford Redevelopment Agency.
(Contact: Jack Hale, 860/523-4276)

Environment and Public Health Summit
Project: Environmental Data Assessment

The Health Department has partnered with local community organizations to collect and assess environmental health data and risk factors in Hartford. With cooperation from local organizations like HART and ONE CHANE, the information collected from the City Health Department will be distributed to all the seventeen neighborhoods in Hartford. This comparative risk assessment process will assist the community in setting environmental priorities.
This project supports the Hartford Health Department Program to reposition itself to more adequately address the core public health functions of assessment, assurance and policy development.
(Contact: Bryon Backenson, 860/547-1426)

University of CT Cooperative Extension System
Project: Community Environmental Educator Training

The Cooperative Extension Services (CES) will train neighborhood block captains and other grassroots leaders on lead poisoning prevention and indoor air quality issues. Trainees will in turn go back to their neighborhoods and hold workshops and give presentations at community meetings. In addition, this projects will evaluate the effectiveness of this method of delivering environmental information to community groups.

CES has expertise in bringing quality information to communities through public educational outreach programs, radio, television, newsletters, publications and correspondence courses. CES is part of the University of CT and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and belongs to a nationwide educational network with other Cooperative Extension Systems at other land-grant universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
(Contact: Mary-Margaret Gaudio, 860/570-9072)

ONE/CHANE Inc.
Project: Environmental Justice Program

This project will fund a health assessments in English and Spanish, at 500 residences, and GIS environmental risk mapping of 100 blocks in the Northeast and Clay Arsenal neighborhoods in Hartford. The health survey will interview people who live near the landfill and the waste-to- energy incinerator and attempt to identify correlation between health symptoms and proximity to waste facilities. Other partners on this project include the City of Hartford Health Department, the CT Department of Environmental Protection, the CT Department of Public Health.

ONE CHANE, Inc. is a local non-profit group with the mission to help the residents of the Northeast and Clay Arsenal neighborhoods and rebuild their neighborhoods through community organizing, housing development, job training and restoring community values.
(Contact: Larry Charles, 860/525-0190)

Citizens' Research Education Network (CREN)
Project: Neighborhood Environmental Project

The goal of this project is to provide technical assistance to residents in the Sheldon and Charter Oak neighborhoods on a variety of environmental issues such as air pollution, odor education, youth job training, and community gardening. Wallet-sized cards with information about odors and telephone numbers for registering complaints were distributed to residents. CREN provides technical assistance to Hartford area organizations on community economic development and public policy issues through research, education and mobilization activities. Partners included the Hartford Youth Peace Program, and the Metropolitan District Commission.
(Contact: Kim McClain, 860/249-1416)

CT Department of Environmental Protection
Project: Hartford Neighborhood Environmental Project

Hartford Neighborhood Environmental ProjectThe goal of this four-year project with the CT Department of Environmental Protection Click icon for EPA disclaimer. is to enhance economic opportunities and quality of life in seven of Hartford's poorest neighborhoods by raising environmental awareness and furthering environmental compliance by residents, small businesses, and institutions through education, outreach, and compliance assistance, including traditional enforcement where necessary. Some of the program Programs include:

Partners in the project include the Coalition to Strengthen the Sheldon/Charter Oak Neighborhood (CSS/CON), the South Arsenal Neighborhood Development Corp. (SAND), Hartford Areas Rally Together (HART), and ONE CHANE, Inc.
(Contact: Lois Hager, 860/424-3228)

ONE/CHANE, Inc.
Project: Community Environmental Coordinator

ONE/CHANE, Inc. Funded for a third year, this grant supports a community environmental organizer(CEO), whose role is to assist the UEP program in developing a strong city-wide network of community organizations, agencies and elected officials that will lead to sustainable and meaningful community involvement in local environmental issues. The CEO has been successful in forming the Capitol Region Environmental Roundtable, whose main focus is to establish cooperative partnerships between major stakeholders throughout the region regarding air and water quality, waste management, facility siting, and environmental health in the region. Members include:

ONE CHANE, Inc., is a local non-profit group with the mission to help the residents of the Northeast and Clay Arsenal neighborhoods, rebuild their neighborhoods through community organizing, housing development, job training and restoring community values.
(Contact: Cynthia Jennings, 860/525-0190)

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